Tag: Scientometrics

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Exploring Faculty Mobility and Research Dynamics at HBCUs: A New Study Offers Insights

In the ever-evolving landscape of academia, faculty mobility and institutional support play a crucial role in shaping research output and career development. A recent study by Zheng, Yan, and Ni (2024) takes a close look at faculty mobility within Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and its impact on research dynamics, specifically focusing on how faculty moves between HBCUs and Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) influence productivity and academic collaboration.

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[New paper] Understanding the Representation of Asians and Asian Americans Within Academic Otolaryngology Leadership

This new study found that despite strong overall representation in otolaryngology, Asians are less likely to receive promotion, tenure, or full professorship relative to other racial groups. Future efforts should emphasize equitable advancement opportunities to ensure a diverse otolaryngology leadership.

Illustration for paper "Gender differences in the patterns and consequences of changing research directions in scientific careers"
Gender / General

New paper : “Gender differences in the patterns and consequences of changing research directions in scientific careers”

Changes of research directions in scientific careers are related to the so-called “essential tension” between exploration of new knowledge and exploitation of established knowledge in research and innovation. Changes of research directions are thereby assumed to influence the evolution of science in general. Research has shown that such changes may also affect the success of individual scientists in their careers. […]

"societal pressures encourage women to be more uncertain than their male counterparts" Illustration by DALL-E
Gender / General / Machine Learning

Do societal pressures encourage women to be more uncertain than their male counterparts?

ChatGPT is impressive … it works like magic. But how robust are its answers, compared to recent academic results? ChatGPT can write about the Neo-Assyrian period, but what if a major archeological discovery were made that would change everything we know about this period. How long would it take for ChatGPT to adjust its knowledge?
We’ve prompted ChatGPT with some of the research questions of the paper “Editing a Woman’s Voice” (2022, Anna M. Costello, Ekaterina Fedorova, Zhijing Jin, and Rada Mihalcea).

Illustration generated on DALL-E with caption : "A woman surgeon and a man surgeon operating together a complex surgery on a patient"
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How gender diverse is Global Surgery ?

A paper just published in the British Journal of Surgery (Oxford) sourced innovative data from Dimensions AI, a large linked scientific publications dataset, and NamSor, our name gender classification tool, to explore the current state of gender diversity in global surgery – based on the top 1000 most published researchers.